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About the way this thing developed yesterday with the unloading last night of all those e-mails? >> e-mails came in the very beginning of the packet. it was an e-mail from the general counsel of the cia who points out to everybody, this is when the consideration and the editing process is still going on inside the cia, that theres a standing order from the national security council, from the justice department, from the fbi, that no one in any assessment should attribute blame to this thing beca...

What do you think, jonathan, about the way this thing developed yesterday with the unloading last night of all those e-mails? >> e-mails came in the very beginning of the packet. it was an e-mail from the general counsel of the cia who points out to everybody, this is when the consideration and the editing process is still going on inside the cia, that theres a stand l order from the national security council, from the justice department, from the fbi, that no one in any assessment should attrib...

I see cia and state pointing the finger at each other for who dropped the ball on the security in that compound. i dont see a white house cover-up. by the way, to the point former vice president cheney made, you know, if they were trying to tell a lie about the video and demonstrations, it lasted three days. voters went to the polls knowing there had been an al qaeda affiliated attack there. what was covered up? a cover-up that lasted 72 hours. a pretty inept one. i dont see scandal there. >> th...

Check their histories because, you know, what we have here with one issue in benghazi is so clearly as we learn more and more a deliberate effort to politicize a tragedy. >> political sideshow? or obama administration cover-up? >> adam schiff, thank you very much, congressman, always great to talk to you. the talking points did include in the early stage when the cia handed them for edits, a fairly detailed description with the mention of involvement of al qaeda and warnings of a possible terror...

Tamp this down to help obama win the election. >> you think this is smart. >> no question they took out in the editing process, obviously no question. nobody disgraes that they took out references to al qaeda, et cetera. the question is why did they do it? the thing that i just read from the general counsel was, thats because the d.o.j., the department of justice, the fbi who will handle the investigation dont want us saying anything publicly or even internally. >> lets take this, they didnt wan...

>> adam schiff, thank you very much, congressman, always great to talk to you. the talking points did include in the early stage when the cia handed them for edits, a fairly detailed description with the mention of involvement of al qaeda and warnings of a possible terror attack in benghazi. all of these were taken out. it is still unclear at this point by whom, whether the state department or the white house or somewhere else. how can you defend the administration for such substantial edits to ...

Their lives. >> not a single person died. >> tell me about what you wrote on your body. uncommon valor with a common virtue. >> we were decitrying to decidet to write. people wanted to say hopeful stuff, which is good. i was thinking back to the night of hurricane sandy, the night of the fire, on a couple of situations we should have all died three or four times, and we kept going, and and i wanted to say something about bravery. and i was thinking back to the history books and i remember admira...

In terms of the public format they were concerned about getting situation where you are in an investigation and you create potential for a false confirmation. so if you say its al qaeda and you are not 100% sure within 72 hours or so, at least by their logic they are saying they didnt want to put that out in the public so people wouldnt come back and say i heard it was al qaeda thats points number one. because clearp is the director of national intelligence. hes technically in charge of that pro...

Had the language changed and drafts including al-qaeda in a later draft extremists, republicans say it was an effort to downplay or minimize the role of al-qaeda in the benghazi attacks, and no one in the u.s. intelligence community could say for sure who is responsible for the change. >> the initial talking points which were put together in an unclassified format at the house of the intelligence committee did initially state that al-qaeda-affiliated groups were involved, however, by the time we...

Shoot your mouth out in front of a microphone. >> we showed a democrat. >> and he tried to correct the republican had leaked and frankly against house rules, but they of course-- and also didnt find out anything. >> the truth. >> and finish here for a second. >> no, okay, fine. >> and there are, in all of my years of government ive never seen talking points that have not been through an editing process and change, number one. number two. >> changed wrong? >> no, they go through it, a series of p...